The two women were shoppers who decided that they needed to take a break and examine shopping habits. I met the first one at a party. She was barely out of her teens, and yet she missed her bohemian teen life where she got clothes out of the garbage and lived on the streets. After cleaning up her act (ie, getting an apartment, going to school, finding a job), she found herself more and more involved with buying nice clothes, so much so that she couldn't stop herself. That's when (and why) she took a hiatus. Diagnosis? An overdose following deprivation. Hiatus helped settle things down for her.
The other women is in her early thirties and from a fairly affluent family. She has tons of lovely clothes and outfits and seems always to wear something different every time I see her. She didn't reveal much about why she stopped shopping for clothes for a year, but I imagine it was a lifetime of overdose that she felt needied a bit of deprivation. She almost looked frightened when I asked her how it felt.
"It was hard."
Maybe I should introduce her to my sister.
1 comment:
well, sacha just led me to this blog and lo and behold i found myself on her.
well, i wouldn't exactly say that i am barely out of my teens! Is 27 that young? actually, i have never gone mad and crazy buying clothes.being in stores for longer than 10 minutes makes me turn into a glassy-eyed orphan, unless it's a bookstore, or a tschotke store.
my shopping hiatus was not confined to clothing, but anything and everything new under the sun, including underpants, kitchen doohickeys, makeup, books, fancy things to eat at the market, and what have you. it was about six months long and i broke it by buying myself a beautiful blown glass vase that looks like a giant apothecary jar from CB2 because i had none.
now, i buy clothes because i need pants and i can't find any vintage ones that fit my giant ass, i bought stuff from the gap because someone gave me a $50 credit card which i held on to for many months and even tried to give away to a no-show, so...
during my hiatus i felt a great sense of impenetrability. no temptations at all walking by stores, etc. now it's very different. i want so many things. like a new mattress because mine hurts us both (and good luck trying to find a sustainable one, organic mattresses cost $7 million dollars), a beautiful old desk finally, a good computer chair, and a perfect pair of boots, because the ones i have are gorilla glued and are starting to talk again. and i don't feel terrible about wanting these things.
like sacha said, the only clothes that me gaga are ones from old movies.
great blog. thanks! i wrote too much!
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